England can boast an annual underwater spectacle of which few people are aware, according to the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) - the black bream breeding migration to Kingmere reef, 4 miles off Worthing in West Sussex. Read more...

The widespread belief that flash photography is detrimental to slow-moving marine creatures such as seahorses has been challenged in a controversial new scientific study. Read more...

A shipwreck found last year in the Solomon Islands has been confirmed as the first Japanese battleship to be sunk by American forces during World War Two. The identification was made as the result of an expedition carried out by the US research vessel Petrel. Read more...

A Royal Navy diver who risked his life recovering a drowned man from a sinking fishing-boat is to be honoured for his bravery with the award of the Queen’s Gallantry Medal. Read more...

The German submarine U-23, which was scuttled in the Black Sea during World War Two, is reported to have been discovered at a depth of almost 50m and videoed from an ROV by the film-crew making a new Turkish TV documentary called Blue Passion. Read more...

The wife of a scuba diver who went missing off the Kent coast nearly a year ago has spoken to local press about her struggle to have her husband declared officially dead, while at the same time coping with his loss. Read more...

Efforts to produce a comprehensive report following a series of survey dives on HMS Royal Oak in Orkney’s Scapa Flow have been frustrated by theft of the dive-team’s computer equipment, which contained raw data and images of the wreck. Read more...